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Name Keith Webb
Job Title Fireworks Designer Company Pyrovision
When did you start your job? When I was 16 I wanted to join the Navy but failed the entrance exam. My dad owned a bike shop at the time and one of his customers ran a fi reworks company. One day he came in and asked Dad for a hand on a big job he was working on in Battersea Park and Dad couldn’t help, so I stepped in. So what does your job actually involve? A lot more than people envisage! Events like the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert are the glamorous, arty side of the job. In reality it’s a lot of heavy lifting and manual work! I’m a very ‘hands on’ person and love to get into the workshop and get my hands dirty playing with fi reworks. I also regularly head over to China to visit the factories that make fi reworks and see what’s going on with new technologies, effects and colours.
Best / Worst Aspects? The best aspect is seeing it all come together. I get a real kick when anyone says, ‘I can’t believe how you can co-ordinate the fi reworks with the music match.’ I love it when the orchestra and the fi reworks fi t together perfectly. It’s quite tricky because some fi reworks go off instantly, some have a three-second delay between launch and explosion and music isn’t timed in seconds so it’s really a very well planned-out ‘feeling about it’. The worst is two days after the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert when you just feel a bit fl at. You get a strong feeling of ‘Well, what now?’ After working with a close team of up to 15 people in a very intense way for weeks you defi nitely feel the loss of that camaraderie.
Looking back, what advice would you give to a young Keith at the start of his career? Funny you should ask because my 19-year-old son worked on his fi rst Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert last year. I’d recommend taking a theatrical route initially. A lot of what we do and the way we operate relates very closely to theatre methods. You need to know how to do a load in, work with crew and electricians and you defi nitely need to have a deeply ingrained ‘the show must go on’ attitude. Enthusiasm goes a long way. If it rains for two days during out set up we can’t just ask the audience to come back another day because we’re behind schedule! And fi nally . . . tell us more about the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert? This year’s concert showcases the music of fi lms, played live by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The concert will go for about 40 minutes and in that time more than 100,000 fi reworks will launch above Edinburgh Castle. This is the largest concert of its kind in the world and will begin with an explosion of colourful stars and Roman Candles . . . the rest you’ll just have to wait and see!
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❤ I Saw You in the West... ❤ I Saw You mounting the horse in Royal Exchange Square. I’ll make you a traffi c cone hat if you have dinner with me. U/663/01
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mounting the ❤ horse in Royal Exchange Square. I’ll make you a traffi c cone hat if you have dinner with me. U/663/06
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